- Ruby distributions
- Why haven’t companies sponsored core Ruby
- AT&T Interactive sponsoring Aaron Patterson’s work on Ruby & Rails
- Engine Yard sponsors or sponsored Rubinius & JRuby & Rails
- Company Benefits
- Expertise of OSS developers
- Attracting awesome employees
- Developer Benefits
- Work on their passions
- Higher level of engagement
- Possible Problems
- Community can become dependent on corporate support
- Can damage reputation
- Can cause problems moving forward
- Heroku hiring Matz
- SQLite has several Sponsors
- SQLite forces all code into the public domain
- Corporate fork (Twitter forking Ruby Enterprise Edition)
- Ruby Enterprise Edition forked from Ruby by Phusion
- Matz Interview on Heroku
- Better process
- Corporate vs Community Kerfuffles
- What should Ruby do with its new resources?
- Web based VM performance features?
- Ruby-spec
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